Lunch Box 386: Shout
out to my homies!

This
lunch is dedicated to Maria, one of my coworkers. See
all that pretty steamed carrots,
zucchini, and yellow squash? The zucchini and yellow
squash came out of her garden. She gave me a bag of
homegrown produce after I gave her a purple sweet potato.
(She ate it raw. Don't make that face - sweet potatoes
are actually pretty good raw, as she proved to me. The
orange ones taste and crunch much like carrot.)

I also have chicken saladmini-pita sandwiches.
Saw cute little mini-pita breads, bought a bag, and
decided to make teeny two-inch-diameter sammitches
with 'em. The chicken salad doesn't have a lot of mayo,
so as not to turn the pita all soggy. Then there's the
everpresent baked
purple sweet potato, and a fruit
salad made with persimmon, grapes,
and lychees. This fruit salad looks a little like a
Sesame Street monster, admittedly not by accident.